It's hard to imagine anyone but Taraji P. Henson playing Cookie on "Empire," but according to Mo'Nique, she was offered the role first. Mo'Nique appeared on Access Hollywood Live to promote her new project "Blackbird" on Tuesday, but she also spoke very candidly about how her career has been…

Holt tweeted this morning that he’s returning to the newscast tonight, one night after Savannah Guthrie filled in while Holt dealt with a family medical emergency, NBC News said yesterday. It had been unclear how long he would be gone. " @heidi_mcsista: @Nicoleedits Prayers for @LesterHoltNBC and…

Kelvin Chavez of Latino Review scooped the Internet yesterday with a big news dump alleging copious information about the upcoming Walt Disney/Sony reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. The general idea is that it will be a fresh start, sans origin, written and directed by Drew Goddard of Cabin in…

"Bjork," which opens on Sunday and runs through June 7, follows the artist through 20 years of her career, from her first mature solo album "Debut" in 1993 to her latest work and a new music installation commissioned for the retrospective. "It's been an incredibly generous and fruitful journey for…

The Cast of The Sandlot Then and Now
"You're killin' me, smalls!" Here's where the lovable cast of "The Sandlot" is now.
Tom Guiry
Guiry played the dorkily lovable Scotty Smalls in the cast of "The Sandlot" and continues to work on the big and small screen, most notably in 2001's "Black Hawk Down"…

Ryan Reynolds says he and Blake Lively have become members of the no-sleep-new-parents club since the recent arrival of their daughter. When Jimmy informed the new dad that a sleep allergy is not "possible," the actor offered up a new theory.

We've all heard the rumblings that China will soon eclipse America as the top movie-going market sometime around 2020. So the news that the overall box office in the month of February was larger in China ($650 million) than it was in America ($640 million) isn't a shock in theory

NBC is looking to get into the over-the-top game starting with grins and giggles. The Peacock is planning to launch a comedy subscription-video service later in 2015, Variety has confirmed. But at this point, the service still in the early stages of development. NBC’s comedy subscription…

UPDATES: Spike TV is teaming with Jillian Michaels on new unscripted series
Sweat Inc for premiere this fall. The network said today at its upfront in NYC that it ordered 10 one-hour episodes of the series that seeks to find the next big fitness phenomenon. Michaels will host and serve as judge on…

Hulu, looking to cater to the 6-and-under set — or, more accurately, their parents — inked a deal with Disney-ABC Television Group giving the Internet-streaming service exclusive subscription video-on-demand rights to Disney Junior’s acclaimed animated series “Doc McStuffins.” Also covered under…

Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram released a video purporting to show it beheading two men, its first online posting using advanced graphics and editing techniques reminiscent of footage from Islamic State. The footage will stoke concerns that Boko Haram, which evolved out of a clerical movement…

9 Actors Who Only Make Bad Movies
Katherine Heigl
The first time we saw Katherine Heigl as the driven and tightly-wound, but quirky and ultimately lovable girl was in "Knocked Up", and that was a decent comedy. But then she played the same character in "27 Dresses" which was meh. But then we saw it…

This past weekend was meant to be a big one for Will Smith. Following the failure of the overblown vanity project After Earth and the stale Men in Black 3, his new movie Focus was meant to return Smith to the roll of “actor” and not merely a special effect in a sci-fi extravaganza. Focus is a…

The Breakfast Club is getting restored and remastered, marking 30 years since the John Hughes classic put five very different high school archetypes — a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse — in detention to teach them about friendship and other feelings. The restored film will premiere…